Experiments


Non-Classical Music Events at CH, by Genre

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A pie chart showing the breakdown of non-classical music events at Carnegie Hall, listed by genre.

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EXPERIMENT LABEL/TITLE

Non-Classical Music Events at CH, by Genre

TL;DR

Create a pie chart to show non-classical music genre labels and percentage counts, relative to the number of Carnegie Hall events that have a genre keyword assigned to them.


METHODS

We created a SPARQL query to count the number of performances for each genre. We outline the use of genre at Carnegie Hall here, which includes the background to this query:


            PREFIX schema: <http://schema.org/>
            PREFIX mo: <http://purl.org/ontology/mo/>
            PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
            PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
            SELECT ?genreLabel (COUNT (DISTINCT?event) AS ?numberOfEvents)
            WHERE {
              ?event rdf:type schema:Event ;
                     mo:genre ?genre .
              ?genre rdfs:label ?genreLabel .
            }
            GROUP BY ?genreLabel
            ORDER BY ?genreLabel
            

CONCLUSIONS

what we learned

While this genre chart serves as a nice visualization, it is an incomplete representation of musical genre at Carnegie Hall. Genre is not recorded on every non-classical music event, and our current set of genre vocabulary is not up-to-date or all-inclusive. We continue to face several genre challenges related to the limits of our database and to the inconsistencies of the overall genre discussion.

further investigation

We’re still wrapping our heads around our own internal discussion of genre and ask for feedback and/or responses to this chart and to any of the talking points in our blog post, "Musical Genres: Use, Questions, and Challenges". If you have done work similar to this or have also been tossing around musical genre questions in your mind, contact us or tweet using #CHDataLab.